Table of Contents
General Contributors
- Supper, Andrew Hudgins
- Poem, Andrew Hudgins
- Orpheus Enters Hell, Gregory Orr
- Persephone Listens to Orpheus Sing in Hell, Gregory Orr
- A Little Ovid Late in the Day, Bin Ramke
- All Ashore, David Wagoner
- In a Dry Season, David Wagoner
- Minor Suite, David Huddle
- The Episodes, David Huddle
- Janis Joplin Visits Cheerleading Camp, Allison Joseph
- The Ghost of the Poet, Stephen Corey
- The Disturbance, Ron De Maris
- Hunger, R.T. Smith
- Rory, R.T. Smith
- Half-and-half (FICTION), Mary Hood
- A Dream of Water, Elizabeth Spires
- Curtain of Time, Edward Kleinschmidt
- Stabat Mater, Edward Kleinschmidt
- “This Is Your Life, Oliver Hardy”, William Trowbridge
- Eden Abandoned, Maurya Simon
- On Learning of a Book by Arthur DeBles Entitled How to Distinguish the Saints in Paintings by Their Costumes, Symbols, and Attributes, Suzanne Cleary
- The Limits of Knowledge, Gray Jacobik
- The Illuminated Manuscript, Matthea Harvey
- Childhood’s End, Frederick Fierstein
- Siddhartha, Peter Meinke
- History, Peter Meinke
- Sciatica, Alice Friman
- Letter from an Empty House, Alice Friman
- Sounds of the Resurrected Dead Man’s Footsteps #7, Marvin Bell
Poetry International Competition 1997
- Mummy at El Plomo:Â An Offering, Wanda S. Praisner
- Rooftop Sightings, Anthony Wallace
- say good morning to the moon, Timothy Kaiser
- Black Spinet, Alfred Nicol
- Trio Number One–Contemporary, Anita Olachea Bucci
- Derailed at Piacenza, Anita Olachea Bucci
- The Goddess in Traffic, Jane McCreery
- For an Artist Drawing Rocks, Jane McCreery
- Vermeer, Roy Shephard
- Window, Sati Harle
- Untying the Knot, Eleanor Stanford
- Saved, Theresa M. Welford
- Past, Michael Sharkey
- Vickers, Tim Griggs
- Mahavira, Hans Jorg Stahlschmidt (BRONZE WINNER)
- Thinning, Hans Jorg Stahlschmidt
- Bodyslam, Sherman Pearl (SILVER WINNER)
- Paper Drive, George O’Connell (GOLD WINNER)
General Contributors, con’t
- A Necessary Act:Â A Conversation with Naomi Shihab Nye (INTERVIEW), Phebe Davidson
- String, Naomi Shihab Nye
- The Watchers, Dick Allen
- In Wyeth Country, Dick Allen
- Jubilate, Dick Allen
- Wedding Ring Found on Adams Street, Spring Friday, Gordon Johnston
- Soccer Match in Franklin Park, Eric Rawson
- Turning fifty, Phebe Davidson
- Why I Married Him, Andrea Hollander Budy
- The girl who went out stalking deer, Douglas Lawder
- Fifteen Degrees Below Zero, William Doreski
- The Performance, David Baker
- Newborn:Â February, March, David Baker
- The Dream of the Gift, Kelly Cherry
- Day on the River, Kelly Cherry